Mr Guye joins the Stability Pact after spending four years as an Executive Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where he represented     Switzerland, Turkey, Liechtenstein, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Serbia & Montenegro in the Board of Directors. Previously, he worked for the Swiss Federal Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) as Head of Operations for development co-operation and at the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs as Head of Investment Promotion and Mixed Financing Division. Mr Guye also has extensive field experience in economic and regional development from his assignments as Head of Mission of the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (DEZA) offices in India, Peru and Ecuador. Mr Guye holds a Masters degree in political science from University of Geneva and was Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Prior to her secondment to the Stability Pact in 2002 by the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. O'Mahony worked with an Irish-based international consulting company specialising in economic development in transition economies. She has worked throughout Central and Eastern Europe on assignments funded by the European Commission, the EBRD and the World Bank as well as bilateral donors. The majority of assignments focused on the areas of trade development and investment promotion. Ms. O'Mahony is currently responsible for co-ordinating the Stability Pact's Trade Liberalisation initiative in South Eastern Europe. She also contributes to the Pact's responsibilities in the Infrastructure Steering Group for South Eastern Europe and other initiatives on an ad hoc basis.

Mr. Hutter’s expertise comprises all sub-sectors of transport such as road, rail, inland waterway and air transport / traffic. Furthermore he is the representative of the Stability Pact at the Corridor VII Steering Committee (Danube) and has extensive work experience and knowledge in structuring, in evaluating and in setting up BOT (Built-Operate-Transfer) special purpose companies. Before joining the Stability Pact, he worked for over two decades in the private sector of broadcast utilities, railway infrastructure (rolling stock and fixed assets), telecommunications as well as other sectors including health sector. His employments engaged him to work in Central and Eastern Europe, in the UK, in the Middle East and especially in South East Asia (Singapore and Indonesia). He holds an MBA from the University of Economics/ Vienna.

Mr Renaud van der Elst started his career in the field of regional development at the Treuhandanstalt, the agency in charge of privatisations in former East Germany. Thereafter he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers where he worked as audit supervisor on various statutory assignments in financial, commercial and industrial companies.  Later he held the position of Investment Manager at Fortis Private Equity and was responsible for the valuation and negotiation of investment proposals in SMEs.  In that capacity he was member of several boards of directors and provided monitoring, strategy and exit management services to his portfolio companies. Prior to his secondment to the Stability Pact by the Belgian Government in 2006, he served as director of MACTelecom and was in charge of fundraising, mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance matters.  He recently complemented his academic credentials in law and management with a Masters in European law.

Mr Stojovic joined the Stability Pact after holding a position of the Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Regional Initiatives at the Ministry of International Economic Relations of Serbia and Montenegro. There, he was responsible for co-ordination of Serbia and Montenegro’s contribution to regional initiatives (Stability Pact, CEI, SECI, SEECP, Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, BSEC, Danube Cooperation Process). Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade. Mr. Stojovic holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade (Serbia). He was seconded to the Stability Pact by the Ministry of International Economic Relations of Serbia and Montenegro in October 2005.

Prior to joining the Pact, Ms. Georgievska-Schenker’s spent four years at the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) in Skopje, where she worked on various projects in the area of civil society/rule of law, education, conflict prevention/resolution, gender mainstreaming, media, capacity building/institutional development of NGOs, as well as arts and culture. She also spent time at the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission in Skopje, managing the secretariat and coordinating duties of local staff. She also worked for the local World Bank Office, focusing on the introduction and implementation of the Law on Bankruptcy, as well as of projects on training bankruptcy judges and trustees.

Mr. Gabriel joined the Stabilty Pact in November 2003. An architect and urban planner by profession, he conducted research on informal settlements and housing delivery mechanisms in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area (CMA) in South Africa and initiated a planning project entitled “Participatory Low-Income Housing Development in Kuyasa, Township Khayelitsha/ Cape Town”. Prior to that, he worked freelance as a Junior-Planner in a variety of international architecture and urban planning consultancies and conducted his university studies in South East Asia (National University of Singapore) and Germany (Darmstadt University of Technology) where he graduated with an M.A. in Architecture.